On Leadership: Riding Dead Horses
When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. This ancient Sioux saying seems obvious enough; I mean who in their right mind would try to ride a dead horse, right? Well maybe not. Strange as it might seem, I have met many in...
8 Blunders in How Leaders Think, by Mark Sanborn
A friend of mine, Mark Sanborn, is one of the world's leading authorities on leadership, team building, customer service and change. I follow his work closely, and enjoy his writing and speaking. This past week, he put out a blog post that I think every leader in the...
Raising Digital Citizens
Mike has spent most of his career trying to help businesses succeed in a digital world. He believes that the digital world is intimately woven into the fabric of society, and that people are digital citizens as well as physical citizens. This has fundamentally changed...
Memo to leaders: The 3 questions you really need to be able to answer
Of course there are lots of questions that leaders need to be able to answer and really smart leaders know that the essence of leading in today’s context is more about asking the right questions than feeling they always need to have the right answers. However, when it...
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
The famous lyric from the Beatles song of 1967 has moved from an individual plea to a loved one, to a more general appeal to society. A lot has happened between 1967 and now: man has landed on the moon, the Communist Soviet Union has disintegrated, almost everyone...
Business reasons for taking the environment seriously
A number of years ago, our team wrote a short white paper on nine business reasons to take green issues seriously. You can read and download it here. We still believe this. The recession has meant that environmental issues have been put on the back burner by some...
A Feel Good Plane Ride
I have traveled on South African Airways before and been decidedly unimpressed. I once took a flight to London where they ran out of food and the toilets stopped working all on the same flight. To make things worse we could not even distract ourselves from our misery...
Where Senior Leaders Should Focus Their Attention
As a team, we are often privileged to be asked to sit through senior leadership meetings at our clients. Right up to Board level, these peepholes into our clients' workings provide valuable insights into the operations of our clients, but also (and most importantly)...
Experiments for a new world of work
If you follow anything at all about our work at TomorrowToday, you'll know we're passionate about understanding the changing world of work. We are also always on the lookout for people and organisations who are attempting to make adjustments today for the world they...
Sleepwalking Through Leadership: Neglecting Story
Margaret Wheatley has said that leadership is the simple act of stepping forward. Leading in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world – or what is commonly referred to as ‘VUCA’ requires a leadership response unlike anything we have known in the past....
How Does The Enneagram Help With Understanding Others
Once you have had time to ponder over the accuracy of the Enneagram through using it for self-observation, you can begin to use the Enneagram to observe other people. Not like a voyeur might, but rather as a mechanism through which you can begin to understand what...
The Leader’s Challenge: Knowing What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do
Author Max de Pree has said that the first task of leadership is to define reality. For many in leadership today, the reality is they don’t know what to do in a turbulent, complex and dynamic world. Leadership is not what it once was and nor will it ever be that...
African Leadership for Africa’s Future in a Globalised World
For Africa to be successful it needs to find models, methods and approaches that are uniquely suited to the continent and its needs. As one of the world’s best travelled speakers and researchers (he visited 26 countries just last year), Graeme Codrington has some...
Technology innovation that is changing lives
Technology is only as valuable as value that is perceived by its user. The technology that impacts the future are technologies that people adopt and use. These are the technologies to watch. There are many of these technologies on my list at the moment but I only have time/space to share two with you. 3D […]
On leadership: The secret that is hidden in plain sight
The capacity to lead depends on trust. As a leader keeping trust alive is your primary responsibility for without it, you cannot lead. Trust is the air in a healthy organisational culture; it is the very currency of leadership. This is the secret that is hidden in...
Curious about failure: 6 things leaders need to keep in mind
One of the smartest things you can do as a leader is to be curious about failure. Sounds like the entirely ‘wrong’ emphasis doesn’t it? But let me explain what I mean. In business today there is a lot of talk about the need for innovation and the subject of innovation...
30 ways technology will change education between now and 2030
While doing some reading to prepare for a workshop with a group of head teachers last week, I came across this very well researched and presented future timeline of potential educational changes we can expect technology to bring in the next two decades. I don't agree...
The Enneagram: A Tool To Understand Diversity
If you have never come across this business tool before, you might be asking what exactly the Enneagram is. Most simplistically the Enneagram is a 9-point system, which can be used to analyse the spectrum of personality types that could exist inside your business or...
Can we really predict the future?
This is the question a British journalist asked me today. Specifically, he wanted to know if it was possible to predict industry trends thirty years into the future. Here is the gist of my brief reply: Looking thirty years into the future is notoriously hard to do,...
Tomorrow’s Leaders and what to do about it today!
In TomorrowToday we talk a great deal about the generations. Generational Theory is a framework we have shared in some 44 countries and I don't think there can be any consultancy that can claim that kind of global footprint when it comes to this particular theory. Of...